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Assembly Bill A7679

Signed By Governor

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Relates to the accreditation of agencies examining latent fingerprints

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2021-A7679 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S7098
Law Section:
Executive Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §995, Exec L

2021-A7679 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to the accreditation of agencies examining latent fingerprints.

2021-A7679 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7679
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               May 19, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. DINOWITZ -- (at request of the Division of Crimi-
   nal  Justice  Services)  -- read once and referred to the Committee on
   Codes
 
 AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to the  accreditation  of
   agencies examining latent fingerprints
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 995 of the executive law, as added
 by chapter 737 of the laws of 1994, is amended to read as follows:
   1. For purposes of general forensic analysis the term "forensic  labo-
 ratory" shall mean any laboratory operated by the state or unit of local
 government  that  performs  forensic  testing  on evidence in a criminal
 investigation or proceeding or for purposes of identification [provided,
 however, that the examination of latent fingerprints by a police  agency
 shall not be subject to the provisions of this article].
   §  2.  This  act  shall  take  effect  on  the first of September next
 succeeding the date on which it shall have become a law, provided howev-
 er that a police  agency  examining  latent  fingerprints  shall  attain
 accreditation  no later than five years after the effective date of this
 act.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD09959-01-1

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